| 100% | HASTE | 5 | It makes waste, in a proverb |
| 70% | HASTE | 5 | It "makes waste," in a saying |
| 63% | HASTE | 5 | It makes waste, according to a saying |
| 62% | HASTE | 5 | It makes waste, according to a popular saying |
| 60% | HASTE | 5 | Waste maker, in a proverb |
| 59% | ICE | 3 | It makes a "clink" in a drink |
| 59% | MIR | 3 | It made a big splash in 2001 |
| 58% | SEMICOLON | 9 | It makes up the eyes in a winking emoticon |
| 56% | HASTE | 5 | Word rhymed with "waste" in a proverb |
| 55% | ICE | 3 | It's put in a drink to make it cold |
| 55% | TAXI | 4 | It might make a career in the city |
| 55% | WED | 3 | Make it official, in a way |
| 55% | TAGS | 4 | Makes it, in a way |
| 53% | AUTO | 4 | Workers in Detroit make a dash for it |
| 53% | ADE | 3 | It's made in a squeeze |
| 52% | EGGTOSS | 7 | Game in which it's easy to make a mess |
| 52% | ATARI | 5 | Asteroids made a big impact on it in the 1980s |
| 52% | RAM | 3 | Pickup truck make with a horned animal in its logo |
| 51% | AMORE | 5 | It makes you "dance down the street with a cloud at your feet," in a 1953 hit |
| 51% | HASTE | 5 | It makes waste, proverbially |
| 50% | HASTE | 5 | It makes waste, they say |
| 50% | SPILT | 5 | Like milk, in a proverb |
| 50% | OLDDOG | 6 | Unteachable one, in a proverb |
| 50% | PERFECT | 7 | Change a word in this phrase to correct it! "Practice makes flawless" |
| 50% | WASTE | 5 | Change a word in this phrase to correct it! "Haste makes trash" |
| 50% | HASTE | 5 | What "makes waste," in a saying |
| 49% | OLDDOG | 6 | Nonlearner, in a proverb |
| 49% | LOCALS | 6 | Romans, in a proverb |
| 49% | PANEER | 6 | Chef G. Sultan Mohideen made a 72-kilo block of it in 2014 |
| 49% | PEN | 3 | Sword beater in a proverb |